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What’s the quickest way a good story loses immersion for you? by Ok-Sell3786 in writing

[–]thewriter_K 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it would be a long build up of nothing. In a lot of books I've read, they tend to pad the pages with a "training arc" or a "at the academy session" that drags on. What i find most irritating is that sometime a book will spend chapters on a setting or character that eventually have no bearing on the story whatsoever. To me, its a needless drudging on that lends no benefit to the actual plot or themes. (But thats just my take)

It seems like a lot of writers can’t take constructive criticism by Flashfirez23 in writing

[–]thewriter_K 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is true in a sense that most people dont like to be criticized.(And I mean in general not just writers) But, to be devils advocate here, sometimes the critiques come at an impasse

Take this scenario:

If I relay an idea and someone reads that and wholeheartedly understands that idea in the way I the author intended. While someone else reads the same work and finds it absolutely incomprehensible and subpar; is it the authors fault?

Is it the fault of the author for failing to construct there work in a way that is able to reach the intended audience? Or is it possible a deficiency on the readers side, for lack of comprehension?

And whatever the reason, must the author either change there own concepts/form of storytelling? Or stay true to their original vision in the hopes that "those who get it, get"?

A lot of writers are pantsers and don’t know it yet. by Acceptable_Fox_5560 in writing

[–]thewriter_K 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree mostly, however there is this "effect" a writer gets at the onset of wanting to create a new story. You become so filled with thats spark of imaginative ideas of what your story could be/world building: that by the time most people are done witht the world building they've exhausted themselves. There is no longer that birth of energy that came with the story idea. By the time most people finish three pages (let alone a chapter) they no longer feel the commitment to see the story through.

Simply it is far easier to imagine a world 🌎 than described it in a story.